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To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.
Source: In Artists in Quotation, by Donna Ward La Cour, 1989.
-- James McNeill Whistler, (Jul 10 1834-1903), US artist, author; He is known for his studies in color tone and famous for his Whistler's Mother painting.